Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the West Coast saw a new and chastened Bridges. A Bridges local signed a contract with 200 San Francisco warehouses calling for no strikes or lockouts for three years, come peace or war, hell or high water...
...Scripps-Howard star reporter emerged last week as a full-fledged columnist. Thomas Lunsford ("Tom") Stokes signed a new contract with United Feature Syndicate, and went to the head of the columnar class in the New York World-Telegram, bellwether of the Scripps-Howard chain. Stokes's column was appearing in 63 other newspapers, plus 32 in which it was temporarily replacing Ernie Pyle...
With the recent graduation of 120 army men, Harvard's Army Specialized Training unit came to an end, University and Army officials announced yesterday. The Government has terminated its contract with the College for the use of McKinlock Hall, now vacant part of Leverett House...
That the next occupants of McKinlock will not be service men seems definite, as the Army has already declared its intention not to use the hall, and the shrinkage of the V-12 unit at Harvard makes it unlikely that the Navy will contract...
...Hollywood. Van Dell Johnson, of Swedish extraction, was brought up in Newport, R.I. At 19 he abandoned a boyish ambition to be a trapeze artist in favor of a theatrical career in New York. The career, such as it was, lasted six years. It wound up in Hollywood, under contract to Warners at $300 a week, with little work and less attention. Johnson was about to leave town when Lucille Ball gave him a fight-talk and an introduction to Metro...